Ocrasa

Genus of moths

Ocrasa
Adult specimen of Ocrasa glaucinalis, sometimes separated in Orthopygia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Pyralidae
Subfamily:
Pyralinae
Tribe:
Pyralini
Genus:
Ocrasa

Walker, [1866]
Synonyms

Orthopygia Ragonot, 1891[verification needed] (but see text)
Parasopia Möschler, 1890

Ocrasa is a genus of moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. The genus is mostly treated as a synonym of Hypsopygia. If considered valid, the genus includes many species which were formerly included in Herculia.[1] In addition, the proposed genus Orthopygia, which some authors consider a separate (and sometimes monotypic) lineage is here merged with Ocrasa. The latter two genera are also mostly merged with Hypsopygia however.

Selected species

  • Ocrasa acerasta
  • Ocrasa albidalis Walker, [1866]
  • Ocrasa chytriodes (Turner, 1911)
  • Ocrasa decoloralis (Lederer, 1863)
  • Ocrasa fulvocilialis – sometimes still in Herculia
  • Ocrasa glaucinalis – sometimes in Orthopygia
  • Ocrasa nannodes – sometimes in Orthopygia
  • Ocrasa nostralis (Guenée, 1854)
  • Ocrasa placens – sometimes in Orthopygia
  • Ocrasa repetita (Butler, 1887)
  • Ocrasa tripartialis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1871)

Footnotes

  1. ^ See references in Savela (2009)

References

Media related to Ocrasa at Wikimedia Commons

  • Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Ocrasa. Version of 2009-APR-08. Retrieved 2010-APR-12.
Taxon identifiers
Ocrasa


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